Dispel the Curse of Poor Oracle Performance

Sebastopol, CA--Harry Potter, a wildly popular wizard created by J. K.
Rowling, spends his fictional life studying sorcery at the Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In his third year, his best friend,
Hermione Granger, enlists the use of magic to add to her already heavy
academic load. With the blessing of the deputy headmistress, Hermione
employs the Time-Turner, a charmed necklace that allows her to hop back
through time in order to take two classes at once. While her scholastic
endeavors prove to be a bit more taxing than she anticipated, the
Time-Turner is instrumental to the climax of the story: Hermione and
Harry use it to right some terrible wrongs, saving the day once again.

Thankfully, you don't need magical accoutrements or special wizard
training to get the most out of your Oracle database--that includes
fixing some horrible inefficiencies that have been cowering within the
system for years. The methodology for recovering swift, finely honed
Oracle response time is contained within the pages of "Optimizing
Oracle Performance" (O'Reilly, US $34.95), authored by renowned Oracle
scientists Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt. Their book cuts a path through
the complexity of current tuning methods, and streamlines an approach
that focuses on optimization techniques that any DBA can use quickly
and successfully to make noticeable--even dramatic--improvements.